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Dear all Please find the programme for the upcoming Latin American Music Seminar on Saturday 7th November (attached and below). This our 30th seminar, marking 15 years since the series was founded. So there will be some celebration! Please spread the word and display the programme if you can. Once again it is a wonderfully diverse programme and promises to be an excellent day. Very much hoping you can make it. · Also, see details below of a lecture by Katia Chornik to launch her new book: Alejo Carpentier: Blurring Genres (Monday 23rd November at 6.30. Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AN). The event will include live Cuban music by Son Yambu (www.sonyambu.com) with special guest Sue Miller, and will be followed by drinks. Reserve your seat at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> All the best Henry LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC SEMINAR Saturday 7th November 2015 Room G37 Senate House, Malet Street London WC1E 2HU The Latin American Music Seminar is a British forum for Latin American music research that meets twice yearly. Please contact Henry Stobart ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) if you would like to be included on the mailing list, or if you wish to offer a presentation or to perform at a future seminar. 10.15am Coffee 10.40 Welcome 10.45 Yuiko Asaba (Royal Holloway, University of London), Tango and the Erotic: Music and the Sex Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Japan 11.30 Jean Carlo Faustino (King’s College, London – visiting research associate), Rules of Composition for the moda-de-viola: a rural Brazilian song-form 12.15 Chandra Morrison (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London), Breaking in Graffiti: Reflections on Interartistic Research in South American Hip Hop Studies 1.00 Lunch (sandwiches provided) 2.15 Amanda Villapastour (University of Cardiff), Ilu Keke: A Big Narrative about a Small Town Drum in Cuba 3.00 Leonardo Waisman (University of Cambridge), The Invention of a Latin American Musical Baroque 3.45 Tea followed by Claroscuro for prepared tiple (Sound sketch of a visit to the Hypogea of Tierradentro, Cauca, Colombia) perfomed by John García Rueda. We ask for a contribution of £8.00 towards coffee, tea and lunch (unless giving a paper or performing). To attend, please book a place on Eventbrite by Wednesday 4th November. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/latin-american-music-seminar-tickets-19030659214 We are grateful to the Institute for Latin American Studies and the Institute of Musical Research for their support of this seminar series ****** Miguel de Cervantes Award Lectures Monday 23rd November @ 6.30 p.m. at Instituto Cervantes 102 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AN Alejo Carpentier: Blurring Genres and book launch of Alejo Carpentier and the Musical Text<http://www.legendabooks.com/titles/isbn/9781909662179.html> (Legenda) by Dr Katia Chornik (University of Manchester) [cid:image001.jpg@01D102A7.74042E00] This lecture series has been organised by the Embassy of Spain, Office of Cultural and Scientific Affairs & Instituto Cervantes London To reserve a seat please contact: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> (Tel: 020 7201 0752) The Swiss-born Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier y Valmont was the first Latin American to win the Miguel de Cervantes Award. His best known works include The Kingdom of this World, The Lost Steps and Explosion in a Cathedral. Carpentier conceptualised the notion of lo real maravilloso americano (the [Latin] American marvellous real, aka magic realism), exerting a decisive influence on the writers of the so-called Latin American Boom. Carpentier also cultivated poetry, criticism and cultural journalism, and his lesser known activity in music was similarly varied: he worked as a researcher, radio and record producer, concert promoter and writer of song lyrics and libretti. He incorporated music in his fiction extensively, more than any other Latin American writer of his time. Born in Switzerland in 1904 to French and Russian parents, Carpentier spent most of his childhood in Cuba. He settled in Paris in 1928, where he became closely involved with the avant-gardes. In 1939 Carpentier left Europe for Cuba and Venezuela. Following the Cuban Revolution, he took on several official posts, working as a diplomat in Paris until his death in 1980. Katia Chornik is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester’s Music Department. She specialises in music and literature, music and human rights, and Latin American popular music. As part of her ethnographic Leverhulme research ‘Sounds of Memory: Music and Political Captivity in Pinochet’s Chile’ and in partnership with the Chilean Museum of Memory and Human Rights, she has created and managed the online archive Cantos Cautivos (www.cantoscautivos.cl<http://www.cantoscautivos.cl>), which compiles songs that were written, sung and listened to in political detention and torture centres in Chile. She is also working as co-editor of the OUP Handbook Don Juan in Music and Other Arts, addressing intermedial and cross-cultural versions of the Don Juan myth. Chornik’s research on music and human rights has received wide national and international attention through press coverage and her own contributions to media outlets. Dr Henry Stobart Reader in Music/Ethnomusicology, Department of Music Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX Tel. 01784 443533 email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>